Hellenistic Greek (190-100 BCE) Flashcards
Winged victory of Samothrace
Crowning a naval victor
Dedicated by the people of Rhodes after a naval victory
Might have had a reflecting pool
Clinging of the drapery is inherited by Classical Greek art
Winged victory of Samothrace IDs
Hellenistic Greek
190 BCE
Marble
Seated boxer IDs
Hellenistic Greek
100 BCE
Bronze
Seated boxer
Shows realities of boxers life
Feeling pain is human (common experience)
Shows exhaustion and cuts/bruises/ injuries
Most classical statues show athletes get peak while this focuses on the pain
Hellenistic Greek
Greece dissolves
Art is overly emotion and painful
Experiences emotions and subjects never seen before
Great Altar of Zeus and Athena
Ionic structure (volutes, bases, continous frieze)
High relief frieze (showing chaos of battle between Pergamon and Galls)
Largest sculptural piece in the ancient world
Sacrificial space
Hellenistic (movement and emotion)
Great Altar of Zeus and Athena IDS
Pergamon, Asia Minor
175 BCE
Hellenistic Greek
Marble